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5 things to know about Christie’s Social Security plan

assetContent (72)MANCHESTER, N.H. — Gov. Chris Christie’s national proposal to reform Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid includes everything from raising the retirement age to eliminating payments for people making more than $200,000 a year. Here are five things you need to know about it. 1. Raising retirement age Christie wants to raise the retirement age to 69.…

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Posted: April 15th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, Soial Security | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »

4 Comments on “5 things to know about Christie’s Social Security plan”

  1. Barry said at 6:54 pm on April 15th, 2015:

    Christie is one to talk about number 5. From my experience (current though 11/1/13). For background processing costs for Disability cases are funded by the Feds but processed by State workers. In NJ it is the NJ Department of Labor that processes Social Security Disability claims and reviews for NJ residents. NJ is terrible with continuing reviews both processing the reviews timely and the resulting appeals. Since people that are ceased have a right to benefit continuation until a hearing is decided why is NJ workers barely touch an appeal until it is pending for months. The process including holding an inperson heariing in Nj takes about 2 years.

  2. Sancho Panza said at 11:25 pm on April 15th, 2015:

    The hell with promises for about 40 years or so over “contributions” to a totally imaginary “trust fund.” Uncle Sam and his self-appointed bozos just have to redistribute income and assets. Barack Obama’s illegitimate cousin!!!

  3. It's not gonna help him said at 10:52 am on April 16th, 2015:

    with the conservative primary voters. Period.. with all our hard-earned money going to pay for the illegals, and now, the searching to bring any family members they can round up, to bring here, with free flights, no longer the inconvenient bus fares, to sign up for programs at our expense, this is ill-timed at best, and crazy at worst, to tell exhausted citizens, who have paid into the system all their lives, they now gotta wait longer for their retirements, to help pay for all the others,who haven’t: it’s really outrageous: plus, with the ridiculous Obamacare increased deductibles, and costs, and so many getting subsidized, or free, for THEIR care by us, now, my guess is, this will finally do him in.. GET-OUT-NOW,sir, and, stop racking up frequent traveler miles at our expense, for your own ego, too.. enough..

  4. Barry said at 1:54 pm on April 17th, 2015:

    I find it intellectually dishonest to be against tax hikes, but believe it is fine for someone to pay thousands of payroll taxes, and yet be ineligible to collect Social Security because of receipt of other income. Social Security’s premise is that it is an earned benefit. In one fell swoop he is proposing converting Social Security from an earned benefit to a welfare benefit. (Once you have means testing it is welfare.)